The Gospel of tomorrow presents the scenario of the call of the first disciples. This morning during the Lexio Divina as this passage was being read, an episode passed through my mind. It was a scene from a film on Jesus that I had watched sometime back. The film presents beautifully the call of each disciple by Jesus himself. Each one receives a personal invitation from Jesus. But only Judas comes at the end and presents himself to Jesus describing his qualities as to convince Jesus of the great asset that he could be to the group of the disciples, if he formed part of it. Later he asks Jesus whether he could be one among them. Jesus accepts and Judas too becomes a disciple.
I don’t know how much of historical value can be attributed to this particular episode (may be no value at all) but still it tells us a lot knowing the pathetic end that Judas had at the end of his life. I think in our religious and priestly life, one of the convictions that can offer us a great consolation is the strong belief that it is not we who have chosen the Master but it is the Master who has chosen us. We have begun our journey hearing his personal call being addressed to each one of us. In our moments of trials and difficulties, when we reach the point of saying “can’t bear it anymore” we will do well to remember that for God giving a mission to someone and offering the means to achieve the mission is just the same.
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